Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: > Where did you get ALT-155 from? Code page 437: http://www.kostis.net/charsets/cp437.htm On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:07:47AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: > > Where did you ge

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And for anyone who says "upgrade", please note that many firms in the real world are still forcing a base perl version of 5.005_03 or 5.6.1 for development. Still. My weekend project is to demonstrate that you are an optimist.

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
At the risk of re-enforcing my apparent optimism. On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > that the next best one to exploit is ¤ (euro; > unicode=20AC; utf8=E282AC), and the next best is Woah. You've just demonstrated why Euro is far worse than any of the other "Unicod

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Aaron Crane
Kaoru Maeda writes: > Darren Duncan wrote: > > the next best is £ > Isn't that 0x23 in UK? I imagine that someday all the comment lines > cause syntax errors in UK... U+00A3 "POUND SIGN" is at 0x23 in ISO 646-GB (aka BS 4730), true. Fortunately, that character set is almost never used. I think

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:35:12AM -0400, Rob Kinyon wrote: > On 10/21/05, Steve Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:37:09PM +0200, Juerd wrote: > > > Steve Peters skribis 2005-10-21 6:07 (-0500): > > > > Older versions of Eclipse are not able to enter these characters

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Darren Duncan
At 3:26 PM +0100 10/22/05, Nicholas Clark wrote: At the risk of re-enforcing my apparent optimism. On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: that the next best one to exploit is ¤ (euro; unicode=20AC; utf8=E282AC), and the next best is Woah. You've just demonstrated wh

Re: Slightly OT: zip() for Perl5?

2005-10-22 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:32 PM -0400 10/21/05, Mark Reed wrote: Is there a CPAN module which provides the functionality of ¥/zip() for Perl5? I don't see anything obvious in the Bundle::Perl6 stuff. Not hard to write, of course, just wondering if it's been done . . . The List::MoreUtils CPAN module does provide